[Libs-Or] Nancy Pearl

[Pierina Parise]

From: Ron Charles, The Washington Post Book Club

*Nancy Pearl has been named winner of the Literarian Award for Outstanding
Service to the American Literary Community. *This $10,000 honor, conferred
annually by the National Book Foundation, recognizes “an individual or
organization for a lifetime of achievement in expanding the audience for
books and reading.”

Pearl worked for decades in public library systems in Detroit, Tulsa and
Seattle, where she served as executive director of the Washington Center
for the Book. There she founded a program called “If All Seattle Read the
Same Book,” which has inspired the creation of One Book, One City programs
across the world. In 2011, Library Journal named her Librarian of the Year.

A frequent voice on NPR and an engaging literary critic, Pearl is also the
author of several popular reading guides, such as “Book Lust,” and a novel
called “George & Lizzie” (*review*
<https://s2.washingtonpost.com/34a0423/613b67b89d2fda2627506f0a/5ad3ab2fade4e264175aa2f8/26/74/613b67b89d2fda2627506f0a>).
Last fall, she and Jeff Schwager published “The Writer’s Library,” a
collection of interviews with “the authors you love on the books that
changed their lives.”

https://s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?trackId=5ad3ab2fade4e264175aa2f8&s=613b67b89d2fda2627506f0a&linknum=5&linktot=74

See Nancy Pearl's action figure - The History of the Librarian Action
Figure and Nancy Pearl – Archie McPhee
<https://mcphee.com/pages/history-of-the-librarian-action-figure>
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